Company Tied to Top HHS Official Landed $470 Million Deal for Pandemic Prep

Last year, over the objections of government experts, a company with ties to a top federal official won a pandemic response contract worth up to $470 million, according to a Project On Government Oversight (POGO) and Anti-Corruption Data Collective investigation. Weeks after that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) contract was awarded, a federal court unsealed a lawsuit alleging the agency had been previously defrauded into buying the…